This has been a long time coming, I have not just been fannying around since Hot Shots came out, no sir! I have busy working with the people at Rotervision and have written a new book. It’s called Photo Opp in the USA and 52 Photographic Projects in the UK, both books have the same sweet sweet contents so don’t worry about which one you get!
The new book goes in depth into 52 photographic techniques that anyone can try out with the use of accessible kit. So varied are the topics covered in this book that I enlisted the help of 20 contributors from all over the world. This has helped make the book as varied as possible, click here to read mini bios of the all the contributors and to find links to their websites, flickrs, twitters etc.
Getting you hands on the book
I will be selling signed copies of the book and shipping them worldwide for £22.95 + shipping costs. For deals on buying the new book with Hot Shots click here. You can of course pre-order the book from Amazon UK here or Amazon USA here.
Book Launches / Signings!
To celebrate the book coming out I will be holding 2 UK launches (and maybe more in the future), one in Brighton and one in London. 52 Photographic Projects will be on sale at these events for £20 (rrp £22.99). That’s just 38p a project! Also for people slow on the uptake there will be copies of Hot Shots for sale and signed for the special price of £10 (rrp 12.99).
The Brighton launch will be held on Thursday 15th July from 6.30 pm at Add Colour, Brightons newest café / gallery in the North Laines. When I arranged with the café owner, Add Colour was still being put together. Everything is shiny and new so you’d better be on your best behavior. I will be supplying beers on the night as it’s the home crowd. Once they’ve been drunk we can move on to the the Dorset. Because five of the book’s contributors live in Brighton it should mean that you can get your book signed by them in addition to me. You can join the Facebook event page to keep up to date with all the latest developments.
Add Colour
64-65 North Road (old parking fine office!)
Brighton
Sussex
BN1 1YD
The London launch will be held on Wednesday the 21st July at 6:30pm at Bar Sequence in Islington. Bar Sequence is a great venue as they are, in their own words, “equipped to deliver a unique digital audio visual experience”. Sounds cool. It has seven plasma screens around the bar that can be used to show slideshows and videos, I’m gonna use them to transmit subliminal messages so you that you buy my books and enlist yourself onto Hot Shots the photography course. You can join the Facebook event page to keep up to date with all the latest developments.
Bar Sequence
43 Essex Road (Nearest tube is Angel)
London
N1 2SF
Hope to see you at one of the launches! and if you get my new book I hope you enjoy it!
Barnes and Noble have spotlighted my book, Hot Shots, on their website. It’s in the form of a video witch looks more like an infomercial than a review. In case you are wondering how I found this it was not though ego surfing, I am far too busy for that. I found it out from Google alerts it’s the best way to keep track of what people are saying about you online.
In reference to what is said in the video I would just like to point out that the images in Hot Shots are not organized by color, that was an idea when I first started putting the book together but I soon realized that it would be impossible. I would also like to point out that most of my photos are not blurred!
If you want to see an accurate representation of what my book is like, you can check out the video below or you can download a 16 page PDF sample. Hot shots is currently being reprinted after selling out its 2nd UK print run and 1st US print run. After being printed in China they are placed on the slowest boat in the world, so currently one of the only places to get a copy of Hot Shots at the cover price is from me. If you want one hurry as I only have 9 left! If you would like a copy my PayPal address is kevin@analogintelligence.co.uk. If you are worried whether you can trust me just check my eBay feed back profile, if you can’t trust good old lomokev who can you trust? When you pay me on PayPal make sure you leave instructions on who you would like the book signed to. If you don’t have a PayPal account you can send me a good old fashioned cheque, just e-mail me on info@lomokev.com and we can arrange it.
I recently got a photograph published “Joachim Schmid Is Martin Parr – Martin Parr Is Joachim Schmid”. It’s an interesting little book project where Joachim Schmid went to the Berlin Art Forum with Martin Parr’s pass and took photos in Parr’s style. The second half of the book are photos picked from the Martin Parr WE ♥ U picked by Parr him self. The resulting book is great selection of photographs that could of been shot by Parr himself.
You can preview the entire book and buy it from blurb.com here.
The photo of mine that is published in there is one of my snowy swimmer pics from 2007. You can see more of my snowy swimmer pictures in my snowy swimmers flickr set, seeing as there was a lot of snow in the past month I have added quite a bit to that set lately.
Hot Shots sold out its UK print run in 5 mouths but fear not after 4 mouths its back baby! I picked up 100 copies yesterday that I am offering for sale. I intend to set up a shop on this site but in the mean time you can just pay via PayPal. If you would like a signed copy my PayPal address is kevin@analogintelligence.co.uk. If you are worried whether you can trust me just check my eBay feed back profile, if you can’t trust good old lomokev who can you trust? When you pay me on PayPal make sure you leave instructions on who you would like the book signed to. If you don’t have a PayPal account you can send me a good old fashioned cheque, just e-mail me on info@lomokev.com and we can arrange it.
The books are £12.99 + shipping
UK shipping £2.50 total: £15.49
EUROPE £4 total: £16.99
Rest of the world £7.69 total: £20.68
If you live in San Francisco I will be doing a book signing in October in your town so don’t waste your money on shipping!
Hots Shots is an instructional book that tells you how to take photos with inexpensive kit. It’s layed out in a bite sized way. There are no chapters but images with accompanying text explaining how the image was captured, every photo has it’s camera, film type, ISO listed. Click here to download a 16 page sample of Hot Shots.
